Brisbane

Sunshine Coast.

The gully is for a neighbour in his 80s that has had a stroke. He is a cool dude who has restored a lot of forest so I'm getting him back by growing some stuff and then planting it.

I've planted 163 so far, did some weeding, and reshaped the headcuts to 2:1 ramps. Hard to see from the photos but the entire thing including the slopes had been planted out by him starting from 30 years ago.

The bamboo thingy is on another neighbour's bamboo farm.

It's been a labour over a long time, just little sessions of an hour or two here and there. Total, I didn't count but if you took a price on the labour versus some wire shipped in from China, it's more expensive.

The posts were felled, cut, and split maybe 2 years prior from a Gympie Messmate planting (same guy I did the gully planting for). I watched one video of "competition fence splitting" and got the idea and had a go. The bamboo is from an unwanted clump on a bamboo farm, it's a cultivar of Bambusa textilis. It's not too far from the picture so I cut and dragged it there, then removed branches and shortened the culm up a bit. Usually one would split the bamboo and weave it tighter but I was trying to make it "cheaper" by making the posts further apart and not splitting (less Eucalyptus wood needed, less time on culms). A traditional "wattle" has upright posts close together and uses bendy, green wood and bamboo isn't that bendy when not split, hence the longer upright distance.